The time and place: Vienna, Austria in the 1800’s. The main character of the story is real: Bertha Pappenheim (AKA Anna O). In Guises of Desire, the author, Hilda Reilly, recounts Bertha’s intense years living with these psychogenic symptoms using a wonderful combination of solid research and imagination. Ms. Reilly descriptions of Bertha’s variety of psychogenic symptoms including a persistent cough,...

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Psychological non epileptic seizures (also known as PNES) are behavioral events that look a lot like epileptic seizures (ES), but are in fact produced by emotional stress rather than electrical disruptions in the brain.